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Exxon behind anti-jury award 'research'

Dec 7, 2003 4:50AM PST

And what do you know -- the"precedents" are now being used in Exxon Valdez cases...
Controversy spills from Exxon-funded jury research (neat double-entendre headline)

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Dec 7, 2003 5:15AM PST
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Dec 7, 2003 6:29AM PST
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Dec 7, 2003 5:24AM PST

you wouldn't happen to be upset in any way for this "It hired at least nine esteemed psychologists, economists, and law and business school faculty members, giving them research funding that most social scientists can only dream about." would you considering that scrounging funding is in your job description.

Of course they went the extra mile and spent on research and just like the "peer evaluated" studies you trust so much the results of the study are either valid or not and ANYONE is free to contradict them with their own valid research.

Even without digging into the study one can see numerous examples that tend to validate the findings such as the McDonalds coffee award.